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Ask HN: What's the best open source social networking software?
By best I mean most mature software or easiest to build off of for your own social network system.
- benologist 16y agoAppleseed (I think it's called) comes to mind, every time I saw Diaspora mentioned it was cited as a more mature project with similar goals.
- jdp23 16y agoDefine "best"? elgg is a Ning alternative that's got pretty wide usage status.net (formerly identi.ca) is an excellent Twitter alternative Appleseed, Diaspora, and OneSocialWeb are distributed Facebook alternatives crabgrass is targetted at activists depending on what you're looking for, any of them might be the best
- iuguy 16y agoDrupal might not be what you're looking for in terms of sexiness, but it is the most mature, flexible social plumbing framework I've seen and you can do pretty much anything in it.
- ddorian 16y agoI love drupal but be carefull about performance in social network.